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Comentario de Zharkriesh

This works out as, for your average Epic'd out warlock, to be 100spellpower approx., more if your gear is spirit heavy. For Felguard/Emberstorm in 3.1, this glyph in an interesting choice; it grants less DPS than Incinerate or Felguard glyphs, but is on par with Immolate. In short fights, if you Lifetap at the start, Lifetap glyph is far stronger. For Heroic Boss fights (ie meduim length) Immolate comes out on top due to the lack of needing to Lifetap. On long fights, such as Raidbosses, Lifetap comes out ontop if you weave it into your rotation in such a way as to keeping up the buff but not excessivly tapping.

As far as Fel/Ember goes, a strong glyph, but one that needs careful managment.

Comentario de Mecyr

It's better than the tier.7 4 part bonus :P

Comentario de Kushakd

Could be potentially used to add some decent DPS to a standard rotation. Of course, I can't see this becoming part of many serious raiding build rotations but good for hybrids like Felguard/Emberstorm.

Comentario de squash1324

This is basically a "must have" glyph for every raiding warlock regardless of spec. Assuming the guys over at the EJ forums are good mathematicians (safe assumption) this glyph will be the highest damage increase for raiding warlocks over everything else.

Comentario de Justdiespawn

OH THANK YOU GOD. THANK YOU JESUS!This is gonna be so awesome!As squash1234 said, a must-have for all locks.Will it be something likeWe cast it, we gain the 20 sec buff, then when it runs out we can cast it again, or it has a higher cooldown like "cannot occur for 1 minute" or something similar?-Tetsukago

Comentario de darlissa

can someone on ptr test if the spell power gained through this glyph counts for http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47240 ?i know the spell power gained through fel armor via spirit doesnt count at all for demonic pact and its the only exception as far as i know

Comentario de slickwalker

Unless they don't stack due to the simultaneous proc, I think this glyph plus the 4 piece bonus from 7.x tier set might be a sick combination.

With a HoT healer, you can essentially add life tap into your normal DPS rotation.

Comentario de Thaewin

Does anyone know if this stacks with the 4 piece bonus from T7.x?

Comentario de lycanther

But where does it come from? My scribe wasn't offered it from the trainer in Dalaran, is this one of those world-drop recipes?

Comentario de thetacoman

Confirmed - This stacks with the 4 piece T7/7.5 bonus. Also stacks with Darkmoon Card: Greatness, should you happen to have spirit as your highest stat.

Comentario de Andea

Its been rummored all the new glyphs for the most part are world drops. They are book like items which are supposedly BOE. So look in AH for them if youre an inscriptionish wanting the recipe. As for us warlocks, be prepared to pay a hefty amount of gold for this glyph. Seeing as this is said to be a MUST HAVE for all warlock specs it will be in high demand, and only a few inscriptionist may have this right away. They, like anyone else with new stuff to sell, will want to make a fast chunk of gold before the AH is over run with them.

Comentario de ThornedRose

Is this actually out as of 3.1 or is this something yet to be released in an upcoming patch? I can't find much info about it anywhere :/

Comentario de gojtron

Dropped in Ulduar last night for a guildie. Didn't get info about whether is BoP/BoE.

Comentario de typ0

From the patch-notes:

Added around 50 new glyph recipes. These new recipes can be obtained from Books of Glyph Mastery found as world drops on Northrend monsters. Reading a Book of Glyph Mastery randomly discovers one of the newly-added recipes.

Comentario de Pmipsiile

Does this 20% spirit include the 300 spirit from the t7 4 piece set bonus?

Comentario de specialmias

Yes it does stack with the 300 spirit and count it towards its bonus

Comentario de xXxMaSoNxXx

can anyone confirm this?

Comentario de Grave7

From what I heard, if you cast LT before the 4pt7 buff expires, the +300spirit is added to the glyph's effect, otherwise you only gain your actual spirit's 20% as SP. Unfortunately I can't find where I read it.. :/

Comentario de jbray4913

Picked up the glyph on my lock last night...waiting to try it out this evening.

Can't wait to try it out in raid this evening. An amazing glyph. Hope they leave it alone and don't nerf it.

Comentario de faia

just do it simple

its awesome glyph, life tap is something what every lock use

Comentario de Dbuff

This glyph is of much <3 to an Affliction Lock imo :D

And this was downrated why? Affliction has the best spell power scaling, which makes this glyph best (or 2nd best ) for Affliction locks.

Comentario de cangiz

It is the best glyph for any Lock spec.

Comentario de goodgoan

Tested this one against http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42453 for hours, with this one life tapping once every 15sec, and going several times oom and life tap till full mana back with http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42453, I must say that the glyph of incinerate gives me more dps than this one, in a deep destro build 3/13/55, I have 558 spirit what makes this give me 558x0.2=111,6 sp, maybe on really long fights this will be better, but after going 3 times oom, life tap full back, or life tap every 15 sec I must say I rather have glyph of incinerate.

Comentario de yiNXs

And don't forget to use a Life Tap rank 1 before the start of the fight. Yes, this is one of the few situations where downranking is still useful without having any downsides. It gives the full buff without annoying any healer.

Comentario de Opticflare

i agree with u (on the PvE side) this Glyph PvP wise sucks balls (think about it) only reason u wanna stock on spirit is to inc ur DPS with Felarmor and inc ur Life tap.in PvP gear Spirit is NEVER raised. so if u Life Tap with this glyph u will be getting a Horrible buff between 40-60 SP (versus on my DPS set i venefit a HUGE deal with 1400 Spirit which calculates 280+ SP)

imo this is the best glyph out there for PvE (with Spirit over all other stats gear) and horrible for PvP gears (no PvP gear has spirit for us Locks) they usually stack resiliace/crit/stam

Comentario de Thrinwizzle

Not so. For replenishment destro (0/13/58), the improved soul leech procs and replenishment ticks are good enough that you won't go OOM for quite some time. At that point, unnecessary GCDs spent maintaining the buff are outweighed by the flat bonus from an alternative glyph. On the other hand, in movement-intensive fights, where you'll have time to LT but nothing else, the LT glyph can shine even for a replenishment build.

So, it's a bit more complex than you make it out to be. Still a great glyph, though.

Comentario de cangiz

3.2 Patch notes:

Glyph of Lifetap: Duration of the buff from this glyph increased to 40 seconds.

Comentario de cangiz

You are correct Sir.

For 3.2 however, I believe this glyph will beat out immolate because of the doubled duration, for a 0/13/58 (Destro/ISL) spec.

Edit - I was right :). If you are 0/13/58 switch out glyph of Immolate with glyph of life tap.

Comentario de Tournique

As 3.2 Patch notes : Glyph of Lifetap: Duration of the buff from this glyph increased to 40 seconds.

A nice buff imo.

Comentario de lyph3

Looks like that change did not make it live.

Comentario de CycloneDuke

Raiding Destro lock glyphs

Must have:Glyph of Life Tap - Life Tapping grants you 20% of your spirit as spellpower for 40 seconds. With the buff in 3.2 to this glyph's duration, it's easily kept up with little tapping, and can grant upwards of 200 spirit when fully buffed.

The LT glyph gives me about 200 sp pow (yes, I have 1k spirit raid buffed), which is practically a 300 dps increase, which is insane! :P

Lathiel - Chamber of Aspects - EU

Comentario de Carighan

On the 3.3 PTR, this also affects Dark Pact, slightly improving this glyph for Affliction.

Comentario de Bladehallow

1st thing that makes a person a nub is if they dont even know what their class skills do...

Conflagrate consumes an immolate/shadowflame effect on the enemy to deal instant dmg of 12sec/8sec of the given effect...

Basically the more dmg your dot does the stronger your conflagrate is...

So w/ glyph of immolate the dot becomes 10% stronger and so does your conflagrate.

Comentario de matornot

"should you happen to have spirit as your highest stat"?Dunno if you've ever looked at your stats pane, but your intellect will outweigh your spirit by hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.

Comentario de Asmor

I find this change hugely convenient. It always bugged me having to use life tap instead of dark pact just for the buff. Plus, using dark pact means you can keep this buff up at all times with no downsides whatsoever (because who cares about your felpuppy's mana?). Use the buttons you've already got instead of having to bind Life Tap rank 1.

Very good change.

Comentario de ZanathKariashi

With the removal of all spirit from DPS gear from 3.3 onward toward Cataclysm, I wonder what impact it's gonna have on this glyph and other caster dps stuff that uses spirit. Life tap itself is already going back to SP for it's extra effect for instance. More SP is always nice yes, but considering locks don't really get all that much base spirit, most of the other options will probably render it useless once the re-itemization is fully implemented. A lot of Tier 10 people I've talked to are moving back to immolate, or some of the affliction glyphs (Play Destruction myself, so not really sure what others are using).

Comentario de aznorakh

how do you get it?

Comentario de Dreamsmith

Indeed, if you have the Improved Felhunter talent, your felpuppy generates mana far faster than the two of you can possibly spend it. It's nuts...

Comentario de Dreamsmith

most of the other options will probably render it useless once the re-itemization is fully implemented.

That seems highly unlikely. I guess you missed the part where they said they'd be redoing skills and talents as well as stats and items in Cat. This won't be rendered useless once re-itemization is fully implemented since once re-itemization is fully implemented, this ability is almost certainly going to be different as well. The question is, what will the 4.0 version look like? I would guess it'll probably work off Intellect instead of Spirit, but who knows, they may change it even more dramatically than that. It's all speculation at this point in any case...

Comentario de Harper1990

Would this be any good for leveling? I've got the cloth Heirloom pieces so I get a decent amount of spirit....

Comentario de Bannedfury

20% of hp is absurd | and stamina wouldent make a lot of sense..I would go with intellect if this glyph would live on.

P.S --- what if the lock has 20,000 hp? 4k SP just from this?

Comentario de epd19

does a 10% buff to immo dmg and conflag > 200 sp which applies to all spells castthey are clearly saying that it doesnt.. not even close

The numbers were:

Immo glyph is about a 1% dps increase, Inc glyph is 2.5%Immo DoT works out as 10% of my overall dmg, and Inc is 50% (check your own recount for your own figures)Immo glyph is 10% increase of that 10% dmg = 1%Inc glyph is 5% increase of that 50% dmg = 2.5%

The LT glyph gives me about 200 sp pow (yes, I have 1k spirit raid buffed), which is practically a 300 dps increase, which is insane! :P

There are a couple of things wrong here.

1k spirit is a lot for a warlock (heck, that's a decent amount for a healer). This glyph makes spirit more useful to a warlock, but doesn't make it your top priority stat. You could up your dps by dropping spirit in favor of better stats even though it lowers the benefit you get from the glyph.

This glyph is also very situational. You can approximate the benefit of Glyph of Incinerate by looking at how much of your damage is incinerate and increase that by 5%. To approximate the benefit of Glyph of Life Tap you cannot just look at recount and guess what your dps would have been if you had 20% of your spirit as spell power.

To maintain this glyph's buff you need to life tap. If you can life tap at a time you wouldn't have been nuking (before the fight begins, while moving, when you're OOM, etc.) the buff is free, otherwise it can cost you a big dps hit. If once per minute you have to replace a 6k damage nuke with a life tap you're losing 100 dps. With a reasonable amount of spirit, the benefit may not always outweigh that cost.

This is a very good glyph, but because of the nature of the benefit I would only take it for a spec that has no better options for the third glyph. Destruction locks would have incinerate, conflag, and imp/immolate for the third spot. Demonology locks would have metamorphosis and felguard, but no outstanding choices for the third spot. This can also be a good choice for affliction locks (quick decay and haunt being their obvious two glyphs). Since more of their dps comes from dots (and less comes from nukes) it is less of a problem to replace a nuke with a life tap.

This is also a good glyph to have for leveling up or when you hit 80 and start doing heroics. Regardless of spec, in both of those cases you'll be using life tap (or dark pact) a lot, so its nice to get a buff for something you were going to do anyway.

Comentario de Vaeevictiss

stamina...not hp

Comentario de aaroc

Yes, 20% of HP is absurd, but X% of stamina actually makes a lot of sense. Intellect is already going to be adding to our spell power, and Life Tap drains your health to regenerate your mana. Having Stamina, which gives us more health, give us bonus spell power by draining our own health makes a lot of sense to me.

Comentario de doomwow

If anything I expect it will be a % of intellect

Comentario de defektunge

Considering that intellect will essentially be spell power in Cata, it would be ridiculous if it increased your spell power based on your intellect. That's basically like saying that the glyph would increase your spell power by 20% of your spell power.

Comentario de defektunge

It's not bad, actually. You'll probably have a decent amount of HP whatever you gear for at lower levels, and most of the other glyphs won't help you much. Corruption is fun, but doesn't really add much. Since you'll be using Life Tap all the time anyway, this will basically boost all of your spells all the time.

Comentario de Saufsoldat

As of patch 3.3.3 Life Tap scales with spell power rather than spirit so most destruction warlocks have dropped this glyph and any spirit from their gear. With Improved Soul Leech you shouldn't have to Life Tap more than a few times during any encounter, so you can safely go with Immolate/Conflagrate/Incinerate for your Glyphs.

For affliction and demonology, this Glyph is still one of the best. Affliction needs lots of mana and thus life taps a lot anyway and demonology (in a raiding environment) is there primarily to provide spell power to the rest of the raid. Thus you need all the spell power and spirit you can get to make your Demonic Pact stronger.

Comentario de ShadowProphet

Doesn't boost spell power anymore, but it now reduces the global cooldown of your Life Tap by .5 seconds.

Comentario de CallamityLock

OK, what's the big deal with the glyph of life tap now? I've read several 4.0 posts for destruction warlocks that say the glyph of life tap is the way to go...long and detailed stickied posts, and I just don't get it. As a destruction (or any other) warlock, why would 1/2 second off a life tap be more valuable than the glyph of soul link (hand off 5% more damage to your pet that you don't take), or more valuable than the glyph of soulstone? If someone is rezzed in a raid, or PvP, an extra 40% health seems a great deal more valuable than 0.5 seconds saved in a low use spell. I'd take the glyph of shadowflame or the glyph of healthstone before the glyph of life tap any day.

Comentario de Cornbreader

Shadowflame glyph would be useful for PvP, whether to peel someone off a healer/teammate or to have a way to slow a rogue/warrior/dk/pally without having to use Shadowfury or Curse of Exhaustion.

Now, this glyph rocks because although this doesn't give us an sp boost anymore (through the old Fel Armor mechanic), we can life tap A LOT faster now and faster life taps means more time dpsing, worrying about haunt/hand of guldan/conflag cd's, soulburn, etc.

Comentario de Brunpal

Pretty much every warlock guide recommends it but I also don't understand why this is glyph is so good. It's not bad, just merely ok in my book. If it really did reduce life tap by half a sec, ya it would be awesome! But it doesn't actually do that in practice. This is due to haste effects and hard cap of a 1 sec min on the GCD.

Either way, life tap is a global cooldown. Which is 1.5 sec if you have zero haste on your gear and 1 sec if glyphed. However you won't have zero haste because you're a warlock and haste is a great stat! This glyph's usefulness varies inversely with gear. The better your gear, the worst this glyph becomes. A typical raiding warlock is going to have more than 25% haste after raid buffs. So instead of this glyph reducing life tap by 0.5 sec, it reduces it by less than 0.25 sec. At the moment you have 50% haste, this glyph does absolutely nothing.

So using this glyph works out to 3 "free" spells squeezed into time otherwise wasted. That's good, and worth strong consideration as one of your 3 active glyphs. But I just don't think it's so far and above the other minor glyphs that using this glyph should be so automatic as so many make it.

Comentario de Nerys

This glyph may be useful if you're raiding, as you save precious time when using Life Tap, filling in an offensive spell during the time saved by that glyph. However, if you're doing 5 mans only, you won't need this glyph. The fights are too short, you usually only use Life Tap when proceeding to the next trash group or boss, so it doesn't matter if your Life Tap has a bigger global cooldown. As I'm doing 5 mans only, I use Glyph of Soulsone instead (in addition to Glyph of Soul Link and Glyph of Shadow Bolt).

Comentario de George14

On my level 75 Warlock, I spammed this up to over 100k healing absorbed. Just for fun.

Comentario de leaderavia

in 5.0, the debuff received by life tapping is called "Life Tap." it absorbs healing equal to the mana regained and lasts 30 seconds.

without the glyph, life tapping in a raid even just once usually prompts all of the healers to overheal the crap out of you since it looks like you're taking damage. with the glyph, the amount of aoe healing being done is likely more than enough to compensate for the debuff without sending the healers into a mana-wasting frenzy. of course, there will be situations where you have to be careful of when to life tap, just like always.

however, if you're in a situation where you're not being hit very often, like questing with a pet or a fight with no raid damage, the mana gained from this glyph will end up being free. after the 30 second debuff falls off, so does the healing absorb, so you gained the mana back at no life cost.

edit: also, eating does not count as a heal. if you're low health and low mana (like after a res), you can life tap all your mana back, and then eat to fill your health.

Comentario de izzlash

Stack up to a total of 4 000 000 healing absorb. After that you are "fizzled".

Comentario de Bogdanov89

Just to point out that Destruction warlocks do NOT have Life Tap - so this glyph is useless for Destruction.

Adding that this glyph is good on Boss fights where you do not expect to be taking any damage - that way you can cheaply get away by simply not needing any healing, which makes the anti-heal absorb effect rather harmless.

However, do try to avoid using this glyph on fights that have intense raid damage - the absorption shield might get so high that it prevents a healer's healing from saving your life...